MNIK & Kurbaan
Finally i managed to see both MNIK & KURBAAN which i somehow never got to watch at the multiplexes when they released....Let me start with KURBAAN
Directed by Rensil and story by Karan....KURBAAN is an extremely stylish movie with a unique style of execution used where minimum background score is used..production values are awesome with decent music....but what it really lacked is good direction ....the actors were wasted and characterisations were poor....the movie lacked a soul terribly and hence not believable......vivek oberoi as usual was very bad (his sudden use of american accent was really funny).....Diya Mirza hardly had few scenese which too she couldn't manage well....
Coming to MNIK now, MNIK is definitely a movie made with lot of soul and great ambition...Shahrukh was outstanding throughout the movie, so did Zareena Wahab in her short role (dnt know why such talented actors get out of the industry so early)....The movie was excellent in the first half sticking to its core story...But as it enters the 2nd half the movie goes haywire....The movie deviates from its core story and wants to establish the goodness of 'Khan' (in a way Muslims)...the whole sequence of going to Georgia and helping the victims caught in 'Hurricane' was a wasteful exercise... stretched the duration and actually made the films content weaker as it diffused the core idea of the movie...
With Indian filmmakers this is a big problem, they dnt stick to the point....MNIK is not about a larger message of 'All Muslims are not bad' but its a simple story of the simplicity of a guy called Khan against the backdrop of '9/11'...Because of the overstretch , MNIK came out of be much weaker movie than what it is actually, doesn't hold the audience till the end as it drags and instead of becoming a 'Fantastic Movie' it comes out as an above average movie....
I would give MNIK 2.5 out of 5....A great effort by Karan Johar & Shahrukh as they really moved out of their mould to try something new...
Those who have not yet seen either can definitely catch MNIK but pls dnt see KURBAAN...
Directed by Rensil and story by Karan....KURBAAN is an extremely stylish movie with a unique style of execution used where minimum background score is used..production values are awesome with decent music....but what it really lacked is good direction ....the actors were wasted and characterisations were poor....the movie lacked a soul terribly and hence not believable......vivek oberoi as usual was very bad (his sudden use of american accent was really funny).....Diya Mirza hardly had few scenese which too she couldn't manage well....
Coming to MNIK now, MNIK is definitely a movie made with lot of soul and great ambition...Shahrukh was outstanding throughout the movie, so did Zareena Wahab in her short role (dnt know why such talented actors get out of the industry so early)....The movie was excellent in the first half sticking to its core story...But as it enters the 2nd half the movie goes haywire....The movie deviates from its core story and wants to establish the goodness of 'Khan' (in a way Muslims)...the whole sequence of going to Georgia and helping the victims caught in 'Hurricane' was a wasteful exercise... stretched the duration and actually made the films content weaker as it diffused the core idea of the movie...
With Indian filmmakers this is a big problem, they dnt stick to the point....MNIK is not about a larger message of 'All Muslims are not bad' but its a simple story of the simplicity of a guy called Khan against the backdrop of '9/11'...Because of the overstretch , MNIK came out of be much weaker movie than what it is actually, doesn't hold the audience till the end as it drags and instead of becoming a 'Fantastic Movie' it comes out as an above average movie....
I would give MNIK 2.5 out of 5....A great effort by Karan Johar & Shahrukh as they really moved out of their mould to try something new...
Those who have not yet seen either can definitely catch MNIK but pls dnt see KURBAAN...
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